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Enacting the Distributed Business Workflows Using BPEL4WS on the Multi-agent Platform

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Multiagent System Technologies (MATES 2005)

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This paper describes the development of a distributed multi-agent workflow enactment mechanism using the BPEL4WS[1] specification. It demonstrates that a multi-agent protocol (Lightweight Coordination Calculus (LCC)[8]) can be used to interpret a BPEL4WS specification to enable distributed business workflow[5] using web services[2] composition on the multi-agent platform. The key difference between our system and other existing multi-agent based web services composition systems is that with our approach, a business process model(system requirement) can be adopted directly in the multi-agent system, thus reduce the effort on the validation and verification of the interaction protocol (system specification). This approach also provides us with a lightweight way of re-design of large component based systems.

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  1. CISA, Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    Li Guo, Dave Robertson & Yun-Heh Chen-Burger

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  1. Chair of Information Systems Management, University of Bayreuth, Universitätsstrasse 30, Germany

    Torsten Eymann

  2. Department for Artificial Intelligence, University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074, Würzburg

    Franziska Klügl

  3. Distributed Systems and Information Systems, Computer Science Department, University of Hamburg, Vogt–Kölln–Str. 30, 22527, Hamburg, Germany

    Winfried Lamersdorf

  4. German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 3, 66123, Saarbruecken, Germany

    Matthias Klusch

  5. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of South Carolina, 29208, Columbia, SC, USA

    Michael N. Huhns

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Guo, L., Robertson, D., Chen-Burger, YH. (2005). Enacting the Distributed Business Workflows Using BPEL4WS on the Multi-agent Platform. In: Eymann, T., Klügl, F., Lamersdorf, W., Klusch, M., Huhns, M.N. (eds) Multiagent System Technologies. MATES 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3550. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11550648_4

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